Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 127 Execution
After extorting a confession through torture for several days, among the five survivors of Liu Lan and his party, none of them confessed.

It would be futile to continue the trial like this, the emperor ordered the sentence of beheading, only Hongliu and the second master changed the sentence to hang.

Hanging refers to the method of strangling a person's neck with a rope and suffocating him to death.

This is what the emperor meant, because they took care of and treated Chen Wenxin.Compared with the punishment of decapitation in which the head is removed, this kind of punishment can at least keep a whole body.

The place of execution was Caishikou at noon, and Chen Wenxin's cold was gone, so he insisted on going to see the execution.

In recent days, her attitude has become much colder, and she doesn't like to talk or laugh anymore. She either lies in bed to recuperate, or sits in the small garden with a book and basks in the sun.

The emperor knew that he was ashamed, and he was afraid that making her emotionally agitated during the illness would not be conducive to her recovery, so he simply put the words down.

It's just that I visit her room several times a day, and pay attention to her diet.

He thought, if you let her calm down, she will definitely lose her anger.

Unexpectedly, Chen Wenxin didn't know who said that Liu Lan and the others were going to be executed today, so he insisted on going to Caishikou to see.

What is there to see in such a bloody scene?
She has always been timid and gentle, how could she think of going to see a murderer?
Not only the emperor was puzzled, but Bai Lu and others were even more puzzled.

"Master, it's better not to go. That place is not clean, it will be bad if you come back with something dirty."

The dirty things Bai Lu mentioned were ghosts and gods.

After she finished speaking, she remembered that Chen Wenxin didn't believe in Buddhism or ghosts, so she didn't necessarily care about it when she told her.

Sure enough, Chen Wenxin insisted on going.

"Second brother said to take me there, but you still make trouble, and if you make trouble again, I will take you too."

After hearing this, Bai Lu hurriedly said, "What are you talking about? If the master is going, I will definitely go too."

Although she was afraid, she couldn't let her master, a girl, go to that kind of place by herself.

No matter how good Chen Wenyi was, he was still a man, after all, he was not as careful as a woman, and could take good care of her.

So Chen Wenyi took her and Bai Lu to the execution ground. The emperor originally wanted Xiao Lizi to go with him, but he was afraid that she would be overwhelmed.

So he ordered Chen Wenyi to bring more people to protect him.In addition, don't tell her to watch too bloody scenes and scare her into nightmares at night.

Since Chen Wenxin decided to watch it, she would not be frightened by it.

Or in other words, she was willing to be frightened by this.

Caishikou is after the most bustling and bustling street in Yangzhou City, where the local government executes major punishments.

Today's supervisor is the magistrate of Yangzhou, and the Caishi entrance is full of people who want to watch the fun.

Chen Wenxin didn't want to watch from the surveillance platform, so some soldiers cleared the way and separated a path among the crowded crowd.

They passed through the crowd, walked to a teahouse on the side of the supervisory platform, and looked down from above.

The second floor of the teahouse was occupied by them, and it was empty.

The crowd below gathered together to watch, and there was a lot of voices.

Some people moved out chairs from the teahouse to sit and watch, but the waiter in the shop hurriedly chased them out to collect money.

A chair costs five cents, and the store gives away a plate of melon seeds for free.

After a while, the chairs on the lower floor of the teahouse were emptied, and there were people who wanted to go upstairs to move the chairs. Seeing the soldiers guarding the stairs, they retreated timidly.

"Yangzhou is a gentle and wealthy town. Not to mention treason, there are not many murders and robbers. Looking at the expressions of these people, it should be a long time since I have seen the death penalty."

The shopkeeper personally came up to deliver the tea. Seeing the two brothers and sisters who looked similar in the seat, their expressions were cold and gloomy, and they dared not say much.

After he bowed and made a bow, he retreated downstairs.

Chen Wenxin looked at the execution ground not far away, five people in white prison uniforms with death cards stuck in their backs knelt side by side on the ground.

Their bodies were covered with scars, and almost all the white prison clothes were dyed red.

In front of Hongliu and Second Master, there are two gallows.In front of Liu Lan and the three of them, there was a shiny big knife.

The crowd below shouted excitedly, discussing why the punishments of the five people were different.

"According to me, it is too kind for them to die so easily for such a serious crime as plotting against and assassinating the emperor!"

"Then what crime do you say is good?"

"At worst, it will be hacked into pieces. Ling Chi will be executed! Look, there are two more who can keep their whole bodies!"

"That's a girl. Even if the girl's family is a traitor, I'm afraid they won't be able to do much. So give her a whole body?"

"That girl is not ordinary, you don't know? She is the top girl Hongliu of the Yanyun Pavilion by the Qinhuai River. I heard that the former Governor of Liangjiang died on her bed..."

Everyone chatted while nibbling melon seeds, and soon they talked about which girl by the Qinhuai River was the most handsome, and which ditties sang the best.

The melon seed husks were scattered all over the ground, and soon they were stepped on by the people who squeezed up from behind, and they couldn't be seen mixed in the soil.

Chen Wenxin listened silently, and sighed: "Human feelings are like thin sheets of paper, and world affairs are like a new game of chess. Death is nothing more than a play, and how much can you feel it?"

This scene of throwing her head and shedding blood, April and spring were warm, made her sigh.

"Father only knows how to teach you and me to be benevolent, righteous, courteous, humble and kind. Now I realize that I have missed you. If I knew this earlier, I shouldn't have made you so kind."

Chen Wenyi frowned, looking at her with worry in his eyes.

"Second brother thinks that I pity them, so I want to watch their execution?"

Chen Wenxin said: "I don't. In fact, I really hate Liu Lan."

"If it wasn't for him, I could have been with the emperor without any worries. I eat, drink, talk and laugh every day, even in the palace, I am very happy."

"If it wasn't for his framing, the emperor wouldn't suspect me, and I wouldn't be disappointed in him. Everything is the same as before. I was very happy before, right?"

Chen Wenyi really wanted to tell her that even without Liu Lan, this incident might still happen sooner or later.

Some things are destined to be inevitable, not accidental.

After all, the emperor is the emperor, he is used to the people around him playing tricks on him, he is used to suspicion and surveillance.

The only one he can really trust is probably himself.

"There are quarrels and suspicions between folk couples, let alone the Tian family. Besides, you are divided into husband and wife, and you have the title of monarch and minister. You can't ask for perfection."

This is not what Chen Wenyi said in his heart, but what he has to say to Chen Wenxin at this moment.

Yes, she hated Liu Lan, what's the use of hating the emperor?
Liu Lan is going to die, the emperor is destined to be her husband.

Getting angry with the emperor will only hurt herself.

She looked under the execution ground and stared at the man kneeling facing the sword.

He hijacked her and dragged her along the icy Qinhuai River.

He had despised her and regarded her as a shameless person who had forgotten his own national righteousness.

He also sympathized with her, admired her, and then.

fall in love with her.

What annoys her the most is that these aren't just his unrequited loves.

She had given him hope.

She showed him her innocence and pitifulness, which made him lose his guard.

She pretended to give in and followed willingly, making him want to take her to Nanming.

She said that the clothes should have big sleeves and be edged with gauze.The waist should be tightened, and the buttons should be made of pearls...

He didn't notice such a clumsy tip-off.

That red pearl dress was her hypocrisy, his affectionate mispayment.

But she still hates it.

I don't know whether to hate Liu Lan or myself, the hatred is more and more difficult to dissipate.

It turns out that I, like the women in the harem, are good at making women scheming.

It's just that her scheming was first used on Liu Lan, and then used on the emperor.

If possible, she would like to never have to use it on the emperor.

He is the emperor, he is.

emperor……

She shook her head wryly.

Liu Lan on the execution ground seemed to feel her fiery gaze. He raised his head and looked at the teahouse next to him, only to see her slender figure.

From the first time I saw her on the painting boat, in just a few days, she has become so thin.

She actually came to watch her execution.

Did she hate herself?

Because of his words, her husband and wife's kindness was hurt, and her whole body was innocent.

Once those words came out of his mouth, even if he regretted it, he could never make up for it.

He's a man too, he understands.What's more, her husband is the emperor aloof.

In the years to come, will she always hate herself?

Hate him all the time if you can.

It can make her remember that in this life, she can be regarded as dead without regrets.

What he regrets most is bringing his younger sister Hongliu to Yangzhou.

Her surname is Liu, and her name is Liu Hong.

No one will ever know.

There were so many spectators in the audience, they only knew her name was Hongliu and she was a prostitute.

He Zeng knew that she also had a pure and kind youth, and she was also a lady from the official family who had no worries about food and clothing.

However, the sorrow of Hongliu's life will end today.

As for Chen Wenxin, will she still have to bear the sins she caused and continue to live in pain?

What she said that day was that although the emperor had listened to everyone's confessions, he still couldn't believe it.

What he didn't know was that after overhearing the conversation between him and Chen Wenxin, the emperor had completely cleared his doubts, but her hatred was not at all here.

What she hated was the emperor's suspicion.

The people she didn't trust completely by herself were also fully trusted.

For her, it was worth a good cry.

The people downstairs began to cheer, and it turned out that the executioner was on stage.

A guard stood beside the gallows, and three fat and strong men stepped forward and picked up the big knife in front of the prisoner.

The supervisor looked at the sky, it was approaching noon.

Chen Wen looked at Liu Lan steadfastly, and the two looked at each other from a distance.

With a movement of his pale and chapped lips, he made a silent mouth shape to her.

He said, hate me.

"At noon, execution!"

The supervisor pulled out a command arrow and threw it under the supervisor's platform.

The executioner's knife stroked his neck a few times, and then the knife was raised, and it was about to fall heavily.

Chen Wenxin sneered, letting him see each word clearly.

You do not deserve.

Gulu——
His bloody head rolled down into the crowd, and the corpse that lost its head and neck spurted a large amount of bright red blood from its chest cavity.

The blood was sprayed on the stage, on the shiny big knife.

Chen Wenyi had already covered her eyes.

"Second brother, I'm not afraid."

When she was rescued that night, Chen Wenyi also covered her eyes and told her.

This time, slowly and calmly, she took Chen Wenyi's hand away from her eyes.

Just let her watch it, the scene is heroic enough for her to remember it.

Anyway -
She can no longer be as peaceful and happy as before.

(End of this chapter)